Vaadin Flow is a free open-source web framework for Java developers. It allows you to implement a web application without having to code any JavaScript or HTML. See the following example:
@Route("")
public class MainView extends VerticalLayout {
public MainView() {
TextField textField = new TextField("Enter your name");
Button button = new Button("Click me", event ->
add(new Label("Hello from the server, " + textField.getValue())));
add(textField, button);
}
}
If you deploy this to a Java server, you'll get the following:
Since the UI code runs on the server side, you can debug it using the tools that your Java IDE of your choice provides. For example, here we are adding a breakpoint in the line that gets invoked when the button is clicked:
These are some of the cool things about Vaadin Flow:
You can use one single programming language to implement a web application (Java or any other for the JVM).Y…
